[PATCH 2/2] Improve 64bit memcpy/memmove for Corei7 with avx2 instruction
Nix
nix@esperi.org.uk
Fri Jun 7 12:18:00 GMT 2013
On 7 Jun 2013, OndÅej BÃlka said:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:11:15PM +0800, Ling Ma wrote:
> I got some afterthoughts how improve memcpy/memset.
>
> First is to copy in backward direction.
Don't we already do this in some situations? That's why there's a new
symbol version of memcpy() et al on glibc 2.14+, because overlapping
memcpy() no longer works and lots and lots of programs were relying on
this (even though it was never ever guaranteed) and were breaking.
--
NULL && (void)
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